What exactly are you talking about? We could argue about the poly count of the models, maybe, but the texture work is one of the best I've ever seen, short only of, *maybe*, Unreal.
I use a Natural keyboard on my SGI. I like the shape, but I hate the spongy feeling of the keys, and I had to phisically disable the Windows keys (they would crash the X server).
I'm the biggest SGI fan there is. I *worship* that company. Or used to.
Now, I hope they suffer a quick yet horrible demise, so we can at least remember them for what they were, and not for what they will become.
I hate the new logo, I hate the new name, and above all, I hate the defeatist, conformist, bland, be-suited, tie-wearing, buzzword-spewing, Dilbertoid, stupid, corporate rationale behind it.
SGI is dead, as far as I'm concerned. That doesn't make me love my Indy any less.
I bought a really old Indy, supercheap, and it's still the best computer purchase I've made in my life. The one computer you can sit down in front of and *work*.
*shrug*... I never cared much for drag-and-drop or any kind of desktop inter-application fancyness, but if you are a fan of that, I understand that E does work that way with GNOME... Not that I have the smarts to get GNOME to work on my SGI. I'll be lucky to get E alone running.:)
Well... Ok, in that case, I guess you are right. I suppose I just wouldn't have the brains for a job that would require me to keep track of 50+ windows...:)
I run a 3x2 screen desktop, *without* a pager. (yeah, it's one massive desktop as opposed to many virtual desktops, but it does the same job). Pagers are a waste of screen space. I just bound a hotkey to flip pages, and that's it.
If you don't like pretty, definitely KDE is for you, because it's the damn ugliest thing I've seen since Win95. I'll be running E as soon as I can get the sucker to compile.
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Pope seen screaming inside glass box...
They probably created the animated GIF on an Amiga...
That's a troll, right?
There is no telling what some people will love.
Wasn't that also true of normal electronic computers for many years? Eventually, they ended up on everybody's desk.
Just give it time.
Hell, I third that.
Do they actually, really, honest-to-god glow in the dark?
Talk about the pet fad of the century if they ever came out commercially...
Oh, they finally changed the color?
In a UNIX environment, the most you can expect to trash would be that particular user's home directory...
I would be seriously worried if someone could recognize me from a videotape of my colon...
Parse it again. It makes sense with the two extra "that", not without.
That must be the reason why where I work we're going to the pain of producing 16bpp images...
If you can't tell the difference between a 24 bit image and a 4096 (was that Amiga HAM?) color image, you really ought to have your eyes checked.
But if Clarke had got it right, the movie would have been called "Waiting to Exhale"... ;)
I'm not sure I agree there. Floppy disks *must* die, and they aren't going to die until companies kill them dead.
Too late, I tried it at home. The stench lasted for weeks...
What exactly are you talking about? We could argue about the poly count of the models, maybe, but the texture work is one of the best I've ever seen, short only of, *maybe*, Unreal.
Parsifal the Bard, Fennin Ro.
That game is already here. It's called EverQuest.
IIRC, it was more like $30k...
I use a Natural keyboard on my SGI. I like the shape, but I hate the spongy feeling of the keys, and I had to phisically disable the Windows keys (they would crash the X server).
As for mice, I'll take Logitech over MS any day.
I'm the biggest SGI fan there is. I *worship* that company. Or used to.
Now, I hope they suffer a quick yet horrible demise, so we can at least remember them for what they were, and not for what they will become.
I hate the new logo, I hate the new name, and above all, I hate the defeatist, conformist, bland, be-suited, tie-wearing, buzzword-spewing, Dilbertoid, stupid, corporate rationale behind it.
SGI is dead, as far as I'm concerned. That doesn't make me love my Indy any less.
'xactly.
I bought a really old Indy, supercheap, and it's still the best computer purchase I've made in my life. The one computer you can sit down in front of and *work*.
Yep, that's the one I'll go for when it's time to gut my Compaq POS...
I like black better than beige, but I would really wish for something *really* out there. I guess I'm spoilt by too many years of SGIs...
*shrug*... I never cared much for drag-and-drop or any kind of desktop inter-application fancyness, but if you are a fan of that, I understand that E does work that way with GNOME... Not that I have the smarts to get GNOME to work on my SGI. I'll be lucky to get E alone running. :)
Well... Ok, in that case, I guess you are right. I suppose I just wouldn't have the brains for a job that would require me to keep track of 50+ windows... :)
I run a 3x2 screen desktop, *without* a pager. (yeah, it's one massive desktop as opposed to many virtual desktops, but it does the same job). Pagers are a waste of screen space. I just bound a hotkey to flip pages, and that's it.
If you don't like pretty, definitely KDE is for you, because it's the damn ugliest thing I've seen since Win95. I'll be running E as soon as I can get the sucker to compile.